301 is the HTTP status code for a permanent redirect.
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Moving URL - telling Bing Webmaster Tools
We're moving a site, we've set up 301's from the old pages to the new ones and told Google about the move, but I could find any were to tell Bing, is it a feature in there Webmaster Tools ?
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.htaccess directory to subdomain
I have been trying to make a subdomain from a directory (made by .htaccess) to be used as the main page starting like http://domain.com/sub/2/3/4.html and turning into ...
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1answer
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Htaccess 301 redirect dynamic URL
I don't know a whole lot about .htaccess rules so forgive and help me ask the correct question.
Currently I have a .htaccess rule like:
RewriteRule ...
2
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1answer
102 views
What are the most commonly used and basic Apache htaccess redirects?
This question is here so we can offer users who are looking for information on how to make one or more common or basic redirects in Apache using the htaccess file. All future questions pertaining to ...
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1answer
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Links don't work on new server
I've recently moved from server with php4 to php5. Now I cant open content in my page. Links look like this "page.com/news-it-is-rainy-day-1.html". But when I try to open link I just get the archive ...
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1answer
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Rankings dropping after small URL-change WITH 301-redirect
Two weeks ago, we attempted to make the URLs of ca. 12 pages more search-engine friendly. We changed three things.
1. Make URLs more SEF
from: /แอร์-ราคา/brandname.html (meaning: ...
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1answer
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Page for Page Redirect in Google App Engine
I have recently changed domain name for a webapp I run on Google App Engine and I am wondering if there is a simple way to do a page for page redirect from my old website to the new domain. ...
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2answers
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Redirect pages to fix crawl errors
Google is giving me a crawl error for pages that I have removed like www.mysite.com/mypage.html. I want to redirect this pages to the new page www.mysite.com/mysite/mypage.
I tried to do that by ...
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1answer
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Domain migration and duplicate content/index issue
I have a website.net which I want to 301 redirect to website.com and I also want to change URL structure on some pages on the new .com site.
Problem is that .com is currently set as Website Alias of ...
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2answers
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GWT: reporting crawling errors for non existing links
Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that never existed, and if i check the "Linked from" tab for a given error link, it shows another that never existed.
They all mention ...
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1answer
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Website starts showing 404 after 301 redirects via .htaccess
One of my clients websites started getting 404 messages on some pages after doing 301 redirects via .htaccess file. I don't understand why that happens, could someone tell me what went wrong?
The ...
2
votes
1answer
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Is my htaccess setting hurting SEO?
I have a site that I have redirecting to https. I do this to leverage wildcard SSL for my password protected pages. Everything seems to work fine with testing. For example, whether you type in http or ...
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1answer
536 views
sub folder non-www redirect
Is there a way to redirect a sub folder to non-www?
What i use is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
BUT this only ...
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2answers
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301 redirects, site files
Is it possible to have a 301 redirect without moving files?
I have a site currently at a .ca domain.
Now I want the primary domain to be .org. I would like to do this in a way that is search engine ...
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1answer
398 views
htaccess and 301 redirects - multiple domains
I have the following which redirects mydomain1.co.uk and mydomain1.com to www.mydomain1.com perfectly.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.mydomain1\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ...
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votes
1answer
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Trouble with .htacess redirection
I use this redirect rule to redirect users from www.domain.com/admin to www.domain.com/wp-admin on a WordPress site.
RedirectMatch 301 \@admin http://www.domain.com/wp-admin
The problem is that ...
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votes
1answer
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How do I change pages registering as 404 to 200
I have this problem. After relaunching my site: http://www.kgstiles.com, traffic dropped immensely(about 60%). After troubleshooting for a week and a half - losing thousands of dollars off of lost ...
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1answer
27 views
Check old urls for backlinks - same domain new design and urls
I have a client who recently did a re-design on his website. The designer did not put any effort in keeping the same url or do any redirect. Ive made a list of the old urls, what I want to do now is ...
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2answers
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Need to redirect all files/folders under subfolder but leave subfolder alone
I hope my title makes sense. Here is what I have: On our previous website, we had URLs similar to the following:
www.example.com/support/BIOS/JXT/0ABWDA22.zip
This same file on our new site has the ...
4
votes
2answers
927 views
How to 301 redirect from old query string urls to CakePHP Canonical urls?
I currently have a .htaccess file that looks like this:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=view&item=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /index.php?url=item/%1 [R=301]
RewriteCond ...
0
votes
3answers
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301 redirect from “/index.html” to root if index.html not exist
Can I create 301 redirect from "index.html" to root directory if file "index.html" not exist?
For example: link "http://example.com/index.html" show "404 Error" page.
I need 301 redirect to root ...
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1answer
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Should I remove bad links to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Should I remove bad links e.g. 0 Page Rank, 0 Trust linking to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Would I get rid of these links using Google's Disavow links?
We've only improved in ...
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1answer
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Robots.txt practices with .htaccess redirections (inherits)
I have a question regarding how to write robots.txt files for many domains and subdomains with redirects in place.
We have a hosting account that enacts primary and add-on domains. All of our domains ...
2
votes
1answer
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How long before Google counts my .htaccess 301 redirect links?
I have a friend who had around 2000 visitors per day to his website before webdesigner with no SEO knowledge changed all his urls. Ive used the wayback machine and google analytics to determine the ...
1
vote
1answer
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https:// search results appearing on Google for purely http:// site
I started weeding through my site's search results from Google today, using a site: search, to determine if there are any links that cause 404s and thus need redirecting. To my amazement I noticed ...
2
votes
1answer
393 views
Redirect from the main page on multilanguage site
I've decided to start developing multilingual web site. Now I'm thinking about the structure. The idea is to use a simple algorithm to find out what language is most interesting to the visitor when he ...
0
votes
1answer
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Multiple domains
I got 6 domains : company.ca and company.com (because both where free, but we are a canadian company but can do business with the rest of the world).
Then, we sell sportwear because of the company ...
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vote
3answers
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Moving to a custom domain in blogger spoiled my pagerank. Need help?
I had www.chankeypathak.blogspot.com as my blog on Blogger. I then purchased a domain www.chankeypathak.com and then I followed the procedure of redirecting all old pages to new ones (301 redirect). ...
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vote
1answer
116 views
301 redirect bulk aspx urls on IIS
We recently relaunched an old aspx site as a new Drupal site on the same domain. No 301 redirect was implemented.
I have outputted a list of 1000 urls that need to be 301 redirected. Most of the ...
4
votes
1answer
273 views
Google Analytics www 301 causing issues with In-Page Analytics
The closest question I could find to my problem is This one. The similarity is:
I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for a year. The domain setting in GA is ...
3
votes
1answer
109 views
How to get rid of crawling errors due to the URL Encoded Slashes (%2F) problem in Apache
The Google web crawler has indexed a whole set of URLs with encoded slashes (%2F) for our site. I assume it has picked up the pages from our XML sitemap file. The problem is that the live pages will ...
2
votes
2answers
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301 redirects. What's best way to get list of all my URL's to start the process of redirecting?
New Magento version of a site about to launch. What the best way to create a list of URLs on my site that ensures I haven't missed any - so i can do redirects on them? And do I want to redirect all ...
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0answers
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Combine redirect to naked domain and point existing content to /blog
I think the .htaccess setup for this ought to be fairly straightforward, but I'm having a hard time with it for some reason. I've just completed the migration of a WordPress single site installation ...
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vote
2answers
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How to avoid duplicate content even when using 301 redirections?
I manage a website with tens of thousands of pages named /view.php?id=1234 and so on. Because we wanted it to be more SEO-friendly, a 301 Moved Permanently redirection of each one of them to ...
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votes
4answers
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Is there any way to redirect one domain to another via DNS settings keeping the path information?
For example, my domain is example.com and when someone navigates to example.com/sample/page.htm, I want it to redirect to test.com/sample/page.htm.
I know that this can probably easily be done using ...
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votes
2answers
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I am moving my site from a virtual directory to a dedicated server, can I save me SEO urls via a web.config change?
I have been hosting my site in a shared environment at http://www.example.com/MYSITE/ for a while and I've built up a following there, I have decent ranking in Google and Bing, as well as I've been ...
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votes
1answer
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Pointing a sub domain to another server using directi control panel while domain.com is not hosted
Do we of course need a host for domain.com? Unfortunately currently the host for domain.com is down, so sub.domain.com cannot be redirected to where it should.
Is there a way to at least activate the ...
2
votes
3answers
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Site not accessible without www in url - Error 400 bad request
A site that I am developing works with the format www.domain.com but when typing the domain without the www i.e domain.com I receive a error 400 bad request. How can I enable non-www for my site.
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2answers
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Htaccess redirection for my domain?
I have a site that has been hit hard with penguin and panda. So hard I have put up another domain and installed a CMS and rewritten the content the page has a good pagerank but was hit hard with ...
2
votes
1answer
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Why are perfectly legitimate pages on my website registering in Google Webmasters as 404?
I have seen this question asked several times here, but never clearly answered.
I suspect it has something to do with my .htaccess file:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
...
2
votes
2answers
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Forwarding non-www domain to other domain with dns
Is it possible to forward firstdomain.com to www.seconddomain.com or seconddomain.com using surely dns records? I know how to forward www.firstdomain.com to seconddomain.com (with CNAME).
What I am ...
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votes
1answer
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Moving site from its own domain to sub directory - updating webmaster tools
We've got a site info-graphic-site.com which is on its own domain, what we want to do is move it to our-main-site.com/infographic
I know how to move them and setup 301's but what I was wondering is ...
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vote
1answer
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site home not at site root index
I have an SEO concern with a website that has just finished the development stage, basically the site has been in progress for a year. During this period the site has been accessible from the URL: ...
2
votes
2answers
156 views
How to fix 404 crawl error of a website
I have a navigational links in a php page nav.php, Which is included in all pages of my website. I have got folder structure like below
+top_folder
-config.php
+includes_folder
...
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votes
1answer
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Consequence of redirecting ALL 404s on a site
I've just gone through my sites 404 list and redirected all of them to the front page.
There were in general 2 categories of links. The first was relative links of client sites which we may have ...
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1answer
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Duplicate title tags error in webmaster tools
I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent webmaster tools duplicate error I redirected (301) old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in "Optimization>Remove URLs" section of ...
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vote
1answer
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301 or 302 redirect for mobile/non-mobile pages
I'm setting up redirection for mobile/non-mobile pages. User agent is detected and redirected appropriately, but the ?mobile=1 or ?mobile=0 flag can be used to force a switch. When that flag is ...
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vote
3answers
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Rewriting URL to get Wordpress “permalink” type URL
I have created an ASP.NET site to replace a WordPress site that creates permalinks in the format:
http://example.com/the-name-of-my-post
I would like these URLs redirected to:
...
3
votes
2answers
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Migration Joomla to Codeigniter - GWT reporting lots of 404's - How to fix
I recently created a whole new fitted system structure for a site previously running on Joomla 1.5 CMS. They wanted something more simple and elegant, and their back-end was a mess of modules and ...
2
votes
3answers
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Subfolder won't permenantly redirect to subdomain
Right now I have the following code to redirect all non-www URLs to www URLs:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Besides that redirection, ...
